A review by ghcstbats
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Splatterpunk meets Wattpad. Parts of the book were good but i really had to slog my way through most of it. The pacing felt uneven and off for most of the book, whipping between scene after scene of high-action without much of a reprieve to really sit with it/the characters. The horniness and sex scenes through the plot felt oddly placed and I didn't care for how it was written/incorporated. It also felt like there was a very weird dichotomy between cis men & trans men through the entire book. I also didn't like that white people were rarely explicitly said as white (usually just "pale"), but POC are explicitly listed according to whatever the narrator thought (I really did not care for how Beth first described Robbie when meeting him). I'd like to think I'll come back in a few months and give it another try but it doesn't look like it'll be likely.
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